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I'm stunned -- this is a great season! Okay, yes, there's Michelle. Too TOO much Michelle, but it's sort of nice not having Ru around. The Balls are usually some of my favourite challenges, but this episode was probably the weakest of the episodes so far this season. And it wasn't terrible! I thought that standing O was a bit over the top, though, as I really didn't like the winner's outfit.

Wikipedia DOB: April 17, 1980, so she'd now be 44. If she didn't shave a few years off her age. And IF Wikipedia is correct...

I'd rather see LaVoix on some type of AS, although why would she bother at this point? WoW would never give her the win, and she surely knows that. I'm now 0 for 6 on UK winners. I think I'll just retreat to my alternative universe for a few minutes, where Bimini reigns as the High Queen and Veronica never trotted out a butterfly trapped in fresh asphalt as a runway theme.

I had a brief moment of glee thinking that Xanax might end up in the bottom two; no such luck. Ugh, she's like Chanel without the (somewhat) delusional charm. I'm sad to see Tara go...but really, she should have immediately been eliminated for her runway. Girl, that was not Newfoundland's flag in 1949 -- it was introduced in 1980! You could have at least worn the Newfoundland tricolour!

The only thing that gives me pause is the fact that RuPaul clearly views LaVoix's run as a career boost -- if, indeed, it even needed that -- and not a Coming Out Party for a Drag Ingenue, which we know she prefers. There's still a chance that LaVoix can win it all, but the rabid drag fanbase skews young, and they probably aren't going to go for anyone over forty. Or thirty, for that matter.

Unless it's on a surprise upcoming season of Skin Wars, where someone is tasked with camouflaging her into a charcuterie board, NO. Didn't we suffer enough on AS9?

The panel's deliberations were particularly aggravating this week when they claimed that they finally got a glimpse of Lill "showing [us] who she really is". No, fools, she's been doing that throughout the entire competition. Pay attention! Of this season's many strengths, she was one of its main highlights. The elimination wasn't unexpected, but still disappointing. Still, better to have a proper goodbye just before the finals than be unceremoniously booted, without fanfare, as the runners-up will be next week. Kyran may have an outside chance at winning, but this is clearly La Voix's to lose.

This season is right up there with US 4, 5, and 6 as the best of the franchise's entire output -- it's simply stellar. I continue to be obsessed with Lill. .

I think this episode showed us persuasive evidence that Nehellenia was the winner of this Drag Race, but that Alyssa is the undisputed champion of RuPaul's Drag Marathon. This season would have been awful without her. I was mesmerized by Pythia's triple-headed look, a smart choice for Werkroom filler when she was sandwiched between both Kitty and Kween, which allowed her to look like she was simultaneously sneering at Kitty and staring blankly at Kween, while actually closing her eyes for a bit and taking a catnap. I may just have to steal that look for my next boardroom meeting.

Boy, do the producers ever have a lot to work on for season 2.

I have tried to stay neutral because, you know, this is an exploitative reality show with poorly-compensated contestants, but I was fuming while watching Kween being unnecessarily cruel (and inaccurately so) to Pythia, who hasn't really said an unkind word to anyone, and who was clearly bothered by it. Ugh.

The final four enter the Werkroom, congratulating themselves on making it to the final four. It's a familiar place for most of them, and it's nice to see the queens to take pride in their accomplishments, even though this group has seemed pre-ordained for the majority of this slog of a season. Except for Alyssa, who finds herself heading to the finish line for the first time in her long, long history of this show. The first time! That's just wild. Kitty takes the opportunity to take a shot at Nehellenia, because of course she does. The eliminated queens return to the Werkroom to announce that it's time to redress some of this season's many wrongs by throwing some cash around! And it's going to be a lipsynch standoff, so it's going to be great fun, right? Well, no. But more on that later! The eliminated queens return in order of their elimination. Except Pythia. What is WoW doing to her? The format is a familiar one: each selected queen will choose an opponent, who will then choose a song. WoW proceeds to then blow it all by revealing a playlist entirely of older RuPaul tracks. You guys -- NO. Vanity is eliminated because she doesn't know the words. Pythia isn't a dancer. Gala loses her wig -- wait, she wins her battle. What? We get one spirited lipsynch -- to "U Wear it Well", but these are all mediocre tracks, and I can only dream of what these talents might have done with better material. But we don't. Soa and Gala -- hopefully with some glue on -- make it to the end. They do their best with "The Beginning", but it's also a dud of a song. Soa wins! I loved her run on DR: France, so this was a nice cash prize for her. Alarmingly, Ru hints that we're going to see a sequel to this season! Please do not do this unless you replace the hosts, editors, and writers. Next week: fill up on whatever supports you'll need to make it the end -- it's the finale! I will root for two of the remaining contestants.

Loved the weecap! I don't have access to Crave while I'm out of the country, so your summary is great.

This might just the time to bring out that Snatch Game chestnut and declare "who cares!" when Ru is sitting at the finale with Kween and Kitty.